How to Install a Sump Pump Discharge to Prevent Failure - French Drain Man

we're installing a new sump pump discharge line in Clinton Township Michigan want to go over a few things I want to show you why it failed I want to show you what we're doing to prevent failure we're using four inch schedule 40 the crest line I'm going to plug them really like their product for a couple of reasons I'll go over that I bought this piece at the Home Depot just so that I could show you what not to do and it goes together with these couplers these couplers are three and a half inches and then you're splitting them because you got to share it this bailed end is four and a half inches and you're not sharing it you're sliding a pipe in four and a half inches there's a bell then right there off a piece of pipe that we cut so you can see that this piece from Home Depot has to have those three and a half inch couplers doesn't have that bell I also like that crest line they'll put a mark so that when you glue the pipe together and you're working in a trench trying to get it tight you want to make sure that it's all the way in it's great that these come pre marked and they bevel it doesn't have this real sharp edge to it has a nice bevel so go together great Chris line is not the only one we use there's several I use but I really appreciate a company that does these small things that help us out in the field so that's what I recommend a schedule 44 inch all the old school guys they ran three inch for so many years they they can't believe that oh four inches too expensive four inches too expensive there is a jump in cost when you go from three inch to four inch schedule 40 but when you increase the diameter of a material it doesn't matter if it's steel or PVC pipe when you will go from three inch to four inch and it's the same thickness the pipe gets stronger it's more rigid you got tree roots growing around it tree roots they tend to take the path of least resistance plus you got to even thaw this one is a shallow system it we can't get it below the frost we just can't it goes we're taking it out to a ditch and this is a system that referred to as some line out to daylight sump line taken to daylight so it's shallow it's gonna be in the frost that's gonna be in the freeze and thaw cycle up here at the house this was when the old line failed it was just spraying on the house you can see all the f-4s in sin the brick that has has come on with a brick from all the water that was spraying up against his house there was a big erosion hole right here as well so we went ahead and the reason why you want to do a connection like this you have your solid this is this is rigid solid coming out of the house you can't do nothing with that but this here is gonna go up and down during the freeze and thaw so that's why we build them like this and then here's your overflow protector if that ditch ever backed up the water wouldn't end up flood in the basement it would still find its way out here so there are some pointers to how to install sump pump line in Michigan when it's in the frost especially out to daylight now why did it fail well I keep talking about this thin wall PVC pipe yesterday our pipe these guys want to use it for some blinds they want to use it for downspouts not here in Michigan not here in Michigan in the Sun Belt Region you guys can get away with that we see too much during the freeze and thaw cycles the stress is on these pipes it's it's unbelievable it's I see failure constantly so this this is what we preach against here in Michigan so if you're in Canada you're in the north north if you have a winter climate you're not in a Sun Belt Region you want to use a schedule 40 for everything don't even mess around with it thin wall and we glue it we don't we don't dry fit it we glue it and the guys that use silicone they crack me up man is that a joke how often do you have to silicone your shower or your bathtub are you a homeowner are you a real new homeowner you're gonna find out that stuff don't last even if it says it's a 50-year it's kind of like a 50-year shingle or or a 50-year window this stuff normally makes it 18 years at best but the the silicone silicone is something that you have to re silicone every few years so I really laugh at the guys using silicone so don't dry fit the pipe don't use silicone use a PVC so meant for a sump pump line done right the first time in southeastern Michigan give us a call

Channel: FRENCH DRAIN MAN

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Id: jTI1_RbI_Po

Length: 5min 21sec (321 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 13 2018